County reorganizes Historical Commission

County Commissioners reorganized the Young County Historical Commission, adding a board of seven voting members that includes Precinct 4 Commissioner Jimmy Wiley. Mr. Wiley has been a critic of the Historical Commission’s plan to renovate the 1921 Jail on Graham’s town square and its practice of taking donations through the County. Judge Win Graham said he and Mr. Wiley met with YCHC co-directors Susan Smith and Julia Cox to come up with the board configuration and to discuss whether to form a 501c3 tax-exempt organization to allow the YCHC to raise money apart from the County. In addition to Mr. Wiley, the new YCHC board members are Ms. Smith, Ms. Cox, Jim Hammond, James Hayes, Mary Faye Orr and Wayne Trice. The Commissioners approved the new board and decided to allow an unlimited number of volunteer, non-voting members to join the YCHC. The new board will be tasked with deciding what YCHC business to bring to the Commissioners Court.